Hmm...
Do I think events can interfere with regular RP? Oh yeah. Everyone and his mother is running their events during the weekends, and there's a heap of roleplayers who only have time to RP during said weekends. Then well, heh, its a person choice whether you want to go to those events, or do a bit more personal roleplay?
A lot of people simply enjoy going to events, and no one can fault them for it. I think its really just a matter of finding a (small) friendgroup with the same tastes in that regard, so you don't run into this problem.
Well, besides that I can just offer you the typical advice of 'go find more people to roleplay with', but you've been around forever, so you know this. But yeah, I think it is just truly a matter of that. My friendgroup doesn't often attend events. One every so often? Yeah, they like that, and I'm of the same mind. But personally for me, between the Ala Mhigan LS events, Sea Breeze Bazaar and the odd Grindstone, I'm good really. But others just want to attend things all the time! What is perfectly fine. It just yeah, don't feel like doing that myself as I generally get little character development out of /most/ events. Anyhow...
People's priority with roleplay is all over the place, I think it's a matter of finding people who share the same tastes in that regard.
Also, I don't think you should stop asking people to roleplay on a whim. I harass my roleplay partners all the time for roleplay. I get to hear 'no, got no time right now, later maybe?' quite often as well. But I just move on to poke the next one who I spot online.
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Yeah, I think Balmung is the first and only community I've seen who has more slice of life/tavern RP going on then anything else. I find it is terrible hard to find people to plot with and interest them in things beyond said 'casual' roleplay. It's the sole reason I like social roleplay to some degree, but not overly much. Well social roleplay? My main character on WoW, or one of them, never gone into battle for over the seven years or so I've had her. But we had a lot of politics going on, interguild roleplay, server events and that like. Balmung, somehow, doesn't have this.
Do I think events can interfere with regular RP? Oh yeah. Everyone and his mother is running their events during the weekends, and there's a heap of roleplayers who only have time to RP during said weekends. Then well, heh, its a person choice whether you want to go to those events, or do a bit more personal roleplay?
A lot of people simply enjoy going to events, and no one can fault them for it. I think its really just a matter of finding a (small) friendgroup with the same tastes in that regard, so you don't run into this problem.
Well, besides that I can just offer you the typical advice of 'go find more people to roleplay with', but you've been around forever, so you know this. But yeah, I think it is just truly a matter of that. My friendgroup doesn't often attend events. One every so often? Yeah, they like that, and I'm of the same mind. But personally for me, between the Ala Mhigan LS events, Sea Breeze Bazaar and the odd Grindstone, I'm good really. But others just want to attend things all the time! What is perfectly fine. It just yeah, don't feel like doing that myself as I generally get little character development out of /most/ events. Anyhow...
People's priority with roleplay is all over the place, I think it's a matter of finding people who share the same tastes in that regard.
Also, I don't think you should stop asking people to roleplay on a whim. I harass my roleplay partners all the time for roleplay. I get to hear 'no, got no time right now, later maybe?' quite often as well. But I just move on to poke the next one who I spot online.
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(11-17-2016, 01:11 PM)Thunderbolt300 Wrote: It seems to me that in a lot of cases, folk tend to shy away from slice-of-life / tavern-RP where the potential to encounter character development is fairly low, so there's not a lot of incentive to engage in that. Meaningful character develop occurs through conflict, events, and having an antagonist on-hand, and none of these things seem to be greatly plentiful in the community-at-large. At least, events of this nature are kept to silos, aren't advertised well, or are by invite-only. Still, slice-of-life / tavern-RP certainly has its place in the RP ecosystem- but it's filler, it's not the main content.
Yeah, I think Balmung is the first and only community I've seen who has more slice of life/tavern RP going on then anything else. I find it is terrible hard to find people to plot with and interest them in things beyond said 'casual' roleplay. It's the sole reason I like social roleplay to some degree, but not overly much. Well social roleplay? My main character on WoW, or one of them, never gone into battle for over the seven years or so I've had her. But we had a lot of politics going on, interguild roleplay, server events and that like. Balmung, somehow, doesn't have this.